Thread holder and guide.



'S. E. TRUETT.

THREAD HOLDER AND GUIDE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 16, I916- 1 ,285,6., Patented Nov. 26, 1918.

INVENTOR ATTOH N EY SARAH E. TRUETT, 0F NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

THREAD HOLDER AND GUIDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26, 1918.

Application filedDeeember 16, 1916. SerialNo. 137,399.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SARAH E. Tnun'r'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nashville, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Thread Holders and Guides, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a thread guide and holder for use particularly in tatting, and has for its object to provide a ring adapted to be applied upon the end of the little finger of the left hand and having a hook on one side thereof through and about which the thread is passed before it is carried to the fingers, said hook holding the thread in position for the shuttle to be passed around the same.

With the above as the principal object in view the invention consists of the novel construction hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the improved thread guide and holder as seen from one side.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the opposite side of the guide and holder,

Fig. 3 is a face view showing the hook under which the thread is passed,

Fig. 4 is an edge view of the hook, and

Fig. 5 is a view of the blank from which the device is made.

In the drawing, 10 indicates a ring here shown as made of a strip of sheet material, such as metal, celluloid, or rubber, bent into circular form and of a diameter to fit snugly on the end of the little finger. From one edge of the blank a at the center thereof there projects a tongue I), the outer end' of which is rounded and which tongue is bent over the blank 0. in the completed article to form the hook 11, said tongue being sufliciently long-to project a short distance beyond the ring or even with rin in order to hold the thread which passes tween the tongue and the ring. The loop 12 formed by the bend of the tongue 1) serves as a guide through which the thread passes from the ball or spool to the hand of the operator, said loop being open at one side or as shown closed by forming a depression 13 in the hook '11 slightly in advance of the loop. This depression presses lightly upon the outer surface of the ring 10 and serves to hold the thread within the guide 12. In using this article the ring is placed upon the little finger with the end of the hook. directed toward the hand and above the nail of the finger. In this position, the thread from the spool or ball can be readily slipped below the end 14 of the hook l1 and carried back into the holder or guide 12 through which it will readily slip as the thread is used in the operation of tatting. The hook as shown is made somewhat broad in order to produce suflicient friction on the thread to hold the same relatively tight around the fingers and serves as an excellent substitute for the present method of winding the thread about the little finger.

The article may be made of any suitable material and ornamented as desired and will be made of sizes if the ring be unbroken but if the ends of the blank a are merely brought into contact or lapped over each other a single size will be all that is necessary as the resiliency of the open ring will be sufiicient to retain it upon the finger.

What I claim is:

In an article of the class described, a rin formed of a strip of sheet material adapt to be worn upon the end of a finger and having a broad flat resilient hook extending across the same, said hook being formed from an integral tongue projecting from one edge of the ring and bent upon itself close to the ring across the outer surface of the same parallel with the axis of the ring, said bend forming an eye for the passage of a thread, and a yieldable closure for said eye on the open side formed by a rib on the under side of the tongue near the bend extending entirely across the tongue and substantially in contactwith the ring to hold the thread within the eye and through the E. S. HOLT, Mrs. TIM H. Moons.

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